Out of power everywhere they look, Republicans are in the midst of, what they call in sports, a rebuilding year.
The first building block of any rebuilding is an infusion of new talent -- young, fresh faces who bubble up through the ranks to emerge on the national stage.
"You become a top-down party when you've had the White House for a long time," said Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) recently. "That has happened to us."

New data out of the indispensable Gallup polling organization shows that President Barack Obama's average job approval during his first 90 days in office is 63 percent, the highest rating in its surveys during that critical time period in more than three decades.

President Obama has courted the chattering class. (Photo by Daniel Aguilar of Reuters) President Obama ran against the chattering class politics of Washington but since coming into office has effectively manipulated this elite group of influencers using a variety...

Campaign fundraising reports for the first three months of 2009 were due at the Federal Election Commission yesterday.
This is one of the Fix's favorite parts of the year (yes, we are well aware of how lame that is) -- combing through stacks of numbers to sort out who won, who lost and who isn't even really trying.

As President Barack Obama jets off to the Summit of the Americas today, continued concerns over the domestic economy has placed a premium on building a stable of able -- heyooo! -- economic spokesmen and women who can reassure the American public that the Administration is on the case.

Former Pennsylvania Rep. Pat Toomey made his primary challenge to Sen. Arlen Specter official today, accusing the incumbent of being "complicit" in an effort by President Barack Obama and Congress to steer the country far to the ideological left.

A new independent poll brings more bad news for former senator Norm Coleman (R): a strong majority of Minnesotans want him to concede his race against Democrat Al Franken. Sixty-three percent of Minnesota voters think Coleman should step aside and...

Former Florida governor Jeb Bush -- shown here with President Bush in 2008 -- has emerged as a key player for Republicans in the politics of policy-making. (Allen Eyestone/AP) Jeb Bush is the first to acknowledge he's no political...

Conservatives across the country are hoping to grab the national spotlight away from President Barack Obama for at least a day by holding tea parties across the country today to signal their displeasure with the government spending put in place in the early days of the Obama Administration.

President Obama's just-completed speech on the economy marked a sharp and (purposeful) departure from many of the addresses he gave both on the campaign trail and in the early days in the White House -- explanatory rather than lyrical, substance...

President Barack Obama will address the state of the economy in a major speech today at Georgetown University even as some Republicans are increasingly skeptical that his message is reaching the American people.

The three-judge state panel charged with ruling on an election contest brought by former Minnesota Republican Sen. Norm Coleman ruled unanimously in favor of Al Franken, delivering the Democrat an important victory but not (yet) signaling the end of the...

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs. AP Photo bY Charles Dharapak White House press secretary Robert Gibbs takes to the podium today to brief the media and we will bring it you live via the magic of Twitter! Gibbs...

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal will not be running for Senate in 2010. AP Photo/The Advocate, Bill Feig Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) has no interest in running for the Senate in 2010 against Sen. David Vitter (R), according to...

The resolution of the Somalian pirate hostage situation on Sunday revealed a White House working actively behind the scenes to avoid the sort of disaster that could come to define the early days of President Obama's administration.